Antares space rocket blast captured from 3,000 feet (VIDEO) [The explosion of the Antares space rocket was caught on camera from thousands of feet in the air by two people flying a light aircraft in the vicinity. The spacecraft was heading to the International Space Station (ISS) on a supply mission. The explosion happened seconds after launch. The rocket had been carrying some 2300 kg worth of supplies to the six astronauts on the ISS. The men filming the explosion on their iPads had been flying a light aircraft close to the site of the launch late on Tuesday, at Wallops Island, on Virginia’s eastern shore. READ MORE: Russia ready to deliver US supplies to ISS after Antares rocket explodes (rt/news/200387-russia-deliver-nasa-iss/) “Video was taken in our Cessna 177 Cardinal from an altitude of 3000ft,” said the video’s poster, Ed Sealing of Sealing Technologies Inc.] rt/news/200627-nasa-antares-rocket-explosion/ https://youtube/watch?v=zarWT7H9t54
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:32:47 +0000
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